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... Vices of Carinus ... He celebrates the Roman Games Spectacles of Rome The Amphitheatre ... Return of Numerian with the Army from Persia Death of Numerian ... ... 284 Election of the Emperor Diocletian 285 Defeat and Death of Carinus 364 ...
... Vices of Carinus ... He celebrates the Roman Games Spectacles of Rome The Amphitheatre ... Return of Numerian with the Army from Persia Death of Numerian ... ... 284 Election of the Emperor Diocletian 285 Defeat and Death of Carinus 364 ...
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... vices of his immediate successors . Engaged in the pursuit of pleasure or in the exercise of tyranny , the first Cæsars seldom showed themselves to the armies , or to the provinces ; nor were they disposed to suffer that those triumphs ...
... vices of his immediate successors . Engaged in the pursuit of pleasure or in the exercise of tyranny , the first Cæsars seldom showed themselves to the armies , or to the provinces ; nor were they disposed to suffer that those triumphs ...
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... vice of the most exalted characters . The praises of Alexander , transmitted by a succession of poets and historians , had kindled a dangerous emulation in the mind of Trajan . Like him , the Roman emperor undertook an expedi- tion ...
... vice of the most exalted characters . The praises of Alexander , transmitted by a succession of poets and historians , had kindled a dangerous emulation in the mind of Trajan . Like him , the Roman emperor undertook an expedi- tion ...
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... vice , acquired its divine representative ; every art and profession its patron , whose attributes in the most distant ages and countries were uniformly derived from the character of their peculiar votaries . A republic of gods of such ...
... vice , acquired its divine representative ; every art and profession its patron , whose attributes in the most distant ages and countries were uniformly derived from the character of their peculiar votaries . A republic of gods of such ...
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... vice , or displayed any personal talents , were rewarded wi a present , whose value was continually diminished by the i creasing liberality of the emperors . Yet even in the age the Antonines , when the freedom of the city had been ...
... vice , or displayed any personal talents , were rewarded wi a present , whose value was continually diminished by the i creasing liberality of the emperors . Yet even in the age the Antonines , when the freedom of the city had been ...
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Side 86 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Side 1 - In the second century of the Christian Era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.
Side 191 - Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations, and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than ostentation.
Side 33 - Such was the mild spirit of antiquity, that the nations were less attentive to the difference than to the resemblance of their religious worship. The Greek, the Roman, and the Barbarian, as they met before their respective altars, easily persuaded themselves, that under various names, and with various ceremonies, they adored the same deities.
Side 84 - His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Side 58 - The olive, in the western world, followed the progress of peace, of which it was considered as the symbol. Two centuries after the foundation of Rome, both Italy and Africa were strangers to that useful plant ; it was naturalized in those countries ; and at length carried into the heart of Spain and Gaul. The timid errors of the ancients, that it required a certain degree of heat, and could only flourish in the neighbourhood of the sea, were insensibly exploded by industry and experience.
Side 34 - Atheist under the sacerdotal robes. Reasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle about their respective modes of faith, or of worship. It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of the multitude might choose to .assume; and they approached, with the same inward contempt, and the same external reverence, the altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter.
Side 31 - The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
Side 1 - ... of wealth and luxury. The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government. During a happy period of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the virtue and abilities of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines.
Side 55 - The public roads were accurately divided by milestones, and ran in a direct line from one city to another, with very little respect for the obstacles either of nature or private property. Mountains were perforated, and bold arches thrown over the broadest and most rapid streams.